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Our first freshly picked salad was served on Sunday here at Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages. We may be a bit later than most but it was well worth the wait!
The salad was a great variety of flavours, all of which came from the garden of Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages. The lettuce was actually from a small box that we have beside the woodshed, and which any gardener could have grown, even if all you have is a window box.
The salad was a great variety of flavours, all of which came from the garden of Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages. The lettuce was actually from a small box that we have beside the woodshed, and which any gardener could have grown, even if all you have is a window box.
Then radishes, which were fantastic, very spicy! These can be easily sown between rows of carrots or parsnips - because they grow faster and are ready for picking much sooner than the carrot or parsnip.
The salad had three additions that really made it lovely. Firstly, the lettuce had been grown interspersed with parsley, so when cutting the lettuce you can’t but help to cut a little parsley, which added a lovely flavour. Then the Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottage secret ingredients which were calendula petals. They are bright yellow and looking a bit like marigold flowers. They tasted slightly spicy too. Then the leaves and flowers of Nasturtium. (The bright red flowers in the picture). They are very peppery. I grew them in a pot at the front door. I have been picking a leaf here and a leaf there for the last two weeks!
I made a fresh vinaigrette dressing with three parts sunflower oil, one part vinegar, some castor sugar and some mustard... (flavour to individual taste!).
Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages are really chuffed with the taste sensation of our first salad served from the garden and will keep you posted on our next vegetables (or flowers for that matter!).
The salad had three additions that really made it lovely. Firstly, the lettuce had been grown interspersed with parsley, so when cutting the lettuce you can’t but help to cut a little parsley, which added a lovely flavour. Then the Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottage secret ingredients which were calendula petals. They are bright yellow and looking a bit like marigold flowers. They tasted slightly spicy too. Then the leaves and flowers of Nasturtium. (The bright red flowers in the picture). They are very peppery. I grew them in a pot at the front door. I have been picking a leaf here and a leaf there for the last two weeks!
I made a fresh vinaigrette dressing with three parts sunflower oil, one part vinegar, some castor sugar and some mustard... (flavour to individual taste!).
Crubenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages are really chuffed with the taste sensation of our first salad served from the garden and will keep you posted on our next vegetables (or flowers for that matter!).
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